Psalm 40 says,
I patiently waited, LORD for you to hear my prayer and you listened and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm, and you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this and they will honor and trust you, the LORD God. You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvelous things for us.
This was the psalm of David. A man who had his fair share of miry pits and who knew what it meant to “wait” on the Lord. The most amazing thing was that His waiting was never in vain. According to his testimony, God stooped down…the Creator came near, and Mercy reached all the way to his need. David found himself no longer in the pit of despair nor the slough of despondency. He was delivered…and at that moment, a new song was birthed in his heart.
Having been in the pit, he could have continued to sing the old “woe is me” song. He could have regurgitated a song outlining the worst of his life. After all, it was part of him, it was the testing that gave him such a testimony. I wonder how many of us, even once we have experienced the stooping down of God, even after the mercy had changed us, we continue to allow ourselves to sing the old songs of defeat and despair.
I know, many of you are having difficulty getting past the terminology I am using. The first time I heard the concept of “New Song” I instantly went to a new melody, or lyric. It did not dawn on me that what God wanted was for my life to sing a new song; a new song that was representative of the one that He has been singing over me, specifically for me, since before I was formed in my mother’s womb. He has that song for each of us. I know sometimes it does not feel like that. It feels like the only song being sung over us is hard knock life or gloom, despair and agony on me, punctuated by crescendos of frustration and rounds of life not to the fullest, but to the overworked and exhausted.
But, Praise God! That is not the case.
According to Zephaniah 3:17, GOD looks at us with love, kindness, and great compassion at all times. It goes on to tell us that HE takes great delight in us, calms and quiets us with divine love, and rejoices over us with singing.
I wonder what song God is singing over me right now? What song is God singing over you? Scripture says that it is a song of rejoicing and delight. I wonder what effect it would have on us if we could hear, just once, the words of God’s song for us, that scene setting orchestral masterpiece written specifically to not just accompany our lives, but to set the course for our lives.
Beth Moore once said that it be cool if when we get to heaven, we get our own CD with our songs on it. So that as we look back over our lives, we could hear the songs that God had for us all along the way.
I think that would be great too, but I don’t want to just hear the songs, I want to join in. I want my life to be in tune and in sync with that song. I think this is where God has brought us as a family of worshippers; each of us individually tapping into the songs that God has for us to sing. Songs that were indeed born out of our testing times, our “David Times” and yet meant to be sung with a new heart, a new purpose, a new outlook…..a purified outlook, a Holy, set-apart and sanctified view of ministry and walking with and for Christ.
When David chose the new song over a familiar tune, or a revamped classic that had been haunting him for so many years and just getting him by, not only was he changed, but those that came into contact with this new passion, joy, and wonder were also challenged and changed. People responded and lives were forever altered. We stated by reading Psalm 40. This is exactly where we witness David’s new song in action.
I patiently waited, LORD for you to hear my prayer and you listened and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm, and you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this and they will honor and trust you, the LORD God. You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvelous things for us.
I want a new song for each of us. I want us to put aside the old way of doing things and take up God’s song for this ministry. I wholeheartedly believe that 2010 for Worship Ministries will be the year of the New Song. What we will discover together is that it has nothing to do with a new “song”, a new tempo, or a new style, but completely and utterly….a new heart.
A new heart born out of a desire to sing out of our circumstances and to be so in tune with the song that God has for us and our lives, that we learn to hear it above every other noise and sing it with the purpose of telling the wonders of His love and bringing change to all who hear it sung.
I patiently waited, LORD for you to hear my prayer and you listened and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm, and you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this and they will honor and trust you, the LORD God. You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvelous things for us.
This was the psalm of David. A man who had his fair share of miry pits and who knew what it meant to “wait” on the Lord. The most amazing thing was that His waiting was never in vain. According to his testimony, God stooped down…the Creator came near, and Mercy reached all the way to his need. David found himself no longer in the pit of despair nor the slough of despondency. He was delivered…and at that moment, a new song was birthed in his heart.
Having been in the pit, he could have continued to sing the old “woe is me” song. He could have regurgitated a song outlining the worst of his life. After all, it was part of him, it was the testing that gave him such a testimony. I wonder how many of us, even once we have experienced the stooping down of God, even after the mercy had changed us, we continue to allow ourselves to sing the old songs of defeat and despair.
I know, many of you are having difficulty getting past the terminology I am using. The first time I heard the concept of “New Song” I instantly went to a new melody, or lyric. It did not dawn on me that what God wanted was for my life to sing a new song; a new song that was representative of the one that He has been singing over me, specifically for me, since before I was formed in my mother’s womb. He has that song for each of us. I know sometimes it does not feel like that. It feels like the only song being sung over us is hard knock life or gloom, despair and agony on me, punctuated by crescendos of frustration and rounds of life not to the fullest, but to the overworked and exhausted.
But, Praise God! That is not the case.
According to Zephaniah 3:17, GOD looks at us with love, kindness, and great compassion at all times. It goes on to tell us that HE takes great delight in us, calms and quiets us with divine love, and rejoices over us with singing.
I wonder what song God is singing over me right now? What song is God singing over you? Scripture says that it is a song of rejoicing and delight. I wonder what effect it would have on us if we could hear, just once, the words of God’s song for us, that scene setting orchestral masterpiece written specifically to not just accompany our lives, but to set the course for our lives.
Beth Moore once said that it be cool if when we get to heaven, we get our own CD with our songs on it. So that as we look back over our lives, we could hear the songs that God had for us all along the way.
I think that would be great too, but I don’t want to just hear the songs, I want to join in. I want my life to be in tune and in sync with that song. I think this is where God has brought us as a family of worshippers; each of us individually tapping into the songs that God has for us to sing. Songs that were indeed born out of our testing times, our “David Times” and yet meant to be sung with a new heart, a new purpose, a new outlook…..a purified outlook, a Holy, set-apart and sanctified view of ministry and walking with and for Christ.
When David chose the new song over a familiar tune, or a revamped classic that had been haunting him for so many years and just getting him by, not only was he changed, but those that came into contact with this new passion, joy, and wonder were also challenged and changed. People responded and lives were forever altered. We stated by reading Psalm 40. This is exactly where we witness David’s new song in action.
I patiently waited, LORD for you to hear my prayer and you listened and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm, and you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this and they will honor and trust you, the LORD God. You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvelous things for us.
I want a new song for each of us. I want us to put aside the old way of doing things and take up God’s song for this ministry. I wholeheartedly believe that 2010 for Worship Ministries will be the year of the New Song. What we will discover together is that it has nothing to do with a new “song”, a new tempo, or a new style, but completely and utterly….a new heart.
A new heart born out of a desire to sing out of our circumstances and to be so in tune with the song that God has for us and our lives, that we learn to hear it above every other noise and sing it with the purpose of telling the wonders of His love and bringing change to all who hear it sung.
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